ICF News and Press, iShares Cohen & Steers REIT ETF From 05/24/19

Co-produced with The Belgian Dentist for The Income Strategist Stock prices are driven by fundamentals over long periods of time. In the short term, investor sentiment plays a big role. Fundamentals are strong for REITs, and this bodes well for the longer term picture. Investor senti...

REIT Rankings: Apartments In our REIT Rankings series, we introduce and update readers to each of the commercial and residential real estate sectors. We rank REITs within the sectors based on both common and unique valuation metrics, presenting investors with numerous options that fit th...

The graph here shows the point at which I said early last summer housing sales had turned over (for the worst) and would remain on a downtrend indefinitely, and it shows how that prediction has panned out. Existing home sales were down again nationally (4.4%) in April (fourteenth month in a ...

We've began tracking existing home sales over the last several months, using Zillow's seasonally adjusted price and sales volume data to estimate the total aggregate valuation of these sales at the regional and state level in order to get a sense of the relative health of the real estate...

Real Estate Earnings Recap In this report, we analyze the recently released NAREIT T-Tracker data to review REIT fundamentals over the past quarter and analyze what they could mean for the rest of 2019. As REIT stock valuations continue to trade at the mercy of macroeconomic forces, it's...

By Robert Hughes Sales of existing homes fell 0.4 percent in April to a 5.19 million seasonally adjusted annual rate. Sales are down 4.4 percent from a year ago and 8.0 percent from the recent peak of 5.64 million in November 2017. Sales declined in two of the four regions tallied: sales f...

Amid the stock market volatility fueled by the drama of U.S.-China trade negotiations, real-estate stocks and ETFs beckon investors as a relatively safe haven. More news on: Vanguard Real Estate ETF, iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF, Cohen&Steers Quality Income Realty Fund, Financial stock...

Billionaire real estate entrepreneur Jeff Greene once said, "You make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave." Thanks to a recent wave, shareholders in many real estate investment trusts (REITs) are starting to look like Rhodes scholars. Year to date...

Brick-and-mortar department stores - the lucky ones still open - are on schedule to be toast. E-commerce sales in the first quarter soared 12.4% from a year ago to $127.3 billion (not seasonally adjusted), the Commerce Department reported on Friday. Last year, e-commerce sales blew throu...

Real Estate Weekly Review Following the worst week of 2019 for the major equity indexes, the S&P 500 ( SPY ) finished the week lower by another 0.7% as trade talks have reportedly broken down between the US and China. Progress on North American trade relations and a delay of the European...